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ARCHIVED: For HTML, what editing software is available?

To create HTML files, you can use simple text editors, or
desktop applications such as word processors, to manipulate code by
hand. You can also use specialized HTML authoring systems to automate
the coding.

Text editors

If you prefer to code HTML by hand, you can use a simple text
editor to create web pages. Brackets is an
excellent free HTML editing application from Adobe available for both
Windows and Mac. Common text editors for Windows include Notepad and
WordPad; both programs are standard in Windows. For Mac, TextEdit
(standard in Mac OS X) and TextMate are popular. Also for Mac,
BBEdit is a
combination text and HTML editor. Major Unix text editors
include Nano, Pico, Emacs, and vi.

Note: If you use a text editor or other desktop
application to create web pages, be sure to save these files with the
.html or .htm file extension. Also, avoid
filenames with two or more words unless the words are linked by dashes
or underscores. For example, this filename would not work:

my file

But this filename would:

my_file.html

Web authoring tools

Dedicated HTML editing programs offer a variety of web-oriented
features not found in other programs. Many allow you to quickly and
easily incorporate Java applets, JavaScript, animated
graphics, web forms, and other advanced features. These programs
also allow you to quickly design whole web sites with dozens of
different pages. An example of a web design program is Adobe
Dreamweaver. A freeware web design program called Amaya is
available from the World Wide Web
Consortium.

Adobe's Dreamweaver, and a great deal of other Adobe software, is
available to IU students, faculty, and staff for download via
IUware, or on DVD through campus bookstores. See
About Adobe software at IU

Note: If your web authoring software doesn't
include an SFTP publishing option, you will need separate SFTP
software to transfer your files to the web server. Examples of SFTP software
include WinSCP (Windows) and Cyberduck (Mac); both are available from IUWare.